At the Blue Eye in Albania, beauty and noise meet at the same time, bright water, mountain air, birdsong, a chainsaw, barking dogs, and right in the middle of it, a simple reminder, chant anyway. In this JuicyMagiK On the Go episode, Madu and Shrimati share a very real travel moment from one of Albania's most famous natural spots. What starts as a visit to the Blue Eye turns into a reflection on Kali-yuga, inner harshness, sweetness of heart, and why the holy names of Krishna matter so much when the mind, the world, and even the scenery feel noisy. There's also a tender meditation on Srimati Radharani, the need to become soft and sweet within, and a living example of devotional practice that doesn't wait for perfect conditions. Quiet is nice, sure, but chanting isn't meant only for ideal moments. It's for now, too, with the chainsaw, with the thoughts, with the whole messy human thing. If you're drawn to bhakti yoga, mantra meditation, sacred sound, spiritual travel, or simply trying to stay peaceful in a restless world, this one carries that gentle medicine.
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hello everybody again
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Madhu and shermati here from Albania and the blue eye
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just when the chainsaw stopped the dog started
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it changed us back we're literally like
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20 km in the middle of the mountains
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and there's just like so much noise
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that's why how do you know I'm Sankirtan
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chanting of the holy names of Krishna
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this is the sublime method for reestablishing our
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natural Christian consciousness
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yes so welcome to Juicy Magic on the go Arrivo Namaste
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and look let's see if you can
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can you show them the like if you go a little higher
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look at the colors of the river
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we're at the Blue eye which is a very famous spot
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oh there it is
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like that it's
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it's hard to do it justice
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but you know what it's true that the noise right now
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it's it's taking away a lot from
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we really wanted to just sit
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you know it's
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I wanted I
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we wanted you know
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we don't get what we want
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we understand
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it's funny wherever we go
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there's just an incredible amount of uh chaos
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quarrel and confusion
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which is in the epitome of Kali Yuga
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the age of iron
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hard heartedness
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so much enmity and quarrel between dogs
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between chainsaw and tree
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between nations and every atom
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he is he's right all around
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so I don't know if Shimondi
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do you think
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you can show a little bit of the mountains behind us
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too just to get an idea
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of the landscape it's very beautiful
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Albania is beautiful
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no doubt it's a bit rough around the edges but that's
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you know
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they had this really really
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really like even by communist standards
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crazy dictator named Edward Hocha
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and he was
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I don't know he must to get that he might I don't know
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I maybe he was taking LSD or something
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he was that nuts he was just like beyond crazy
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and he held his country hostage for like 40 years
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but the people are lovely
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they're coming out of it they're rebounding
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there's a lot of excitement and enthusiasm
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with some more free market economy
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more choice
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freedom to choose so
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choose Krishna
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always think of Krishna and never never forget Krishna
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not even once
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but maybe next video
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we could talk a little bit more about the divine
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feminine energy of the supreme personality of Godhead
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which formulates the haday
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part of the Haday Krishna mantra
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and it comes first why not talk about it now okay
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I'm sorry
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she's the sweetest
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ever that you can imagine
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she's
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I was I was thinking of that story where she was
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she wanted to walk to Krishna and it was dark
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and there was this tree in the yard
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and she thought that's something scary
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and she wanted to run away
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and I don't know if it was Lalita or another puppy
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I'm sorry I'm not that versed in all the names
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she might eat rather on his past times yet
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but that Goffy her friend said no
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no no
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it's okay it's okay
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it's just a tree it's just a tree
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so just imagine this 13 year old girl so sweet
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and we need to be sweet
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so that she doesn't run away from us
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and that's what I'm taking out of it
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I'm looking for sweetness
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and I don't want the sweetness
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the most sweet of all to run away from me
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so I need to be also very sweet
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I was thinking about something about the Vedanta Swami
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Prabhupada the great Acharya
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came to America in 1965
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on a boat called the Jawaharlal Nehru
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um he was saying that
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you know he was on the planes
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he was on a lot of planes
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because he was traveling the world
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teaching people about god
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consciousness and self realization
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bonified and giving everyone a real process that's
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that's actually been
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is meant for this age that's
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and he was saying that when the movies
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the end of these have the screens would come down
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the movies would play he would just close his eyes
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because what was on the screen was just so
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just harsh and so demonic and so full of
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you don't wanna take that harshness in your heart
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and he had such a sweet tender heart
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he didn't wanna
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I didn't want to put it into his brain
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you know and I think of all the media these days
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just so much of it Instagram TikTok
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Twitter x Facebook YouTube
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rumble you just on and on and on it goes
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and almost all of the AI is just concentrated violence
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to some degree there's so much anger and enmity
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without proper consciousness
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without consciousness being purified cleansed
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the consciousness is pure
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but it's covered so unless we remove all that covering
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we just we do not see things as they are yeah
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how can we get through the sweetness in our hearts
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how can we get rid of all the coverings
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all the harshness that are inside of us
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and just become that sweet
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being that we were meant to be I know so that's it so
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come and do a few Gorongosa with us
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by the side of the blue eye in Albania
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I'm gonna
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ah one more time
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hi Krishna hi ball
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you might not be able to hear them
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there's so many nice little birds
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just singing sweetly away
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it's covered by this harsh mechanical
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aggressive
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fuel induced spiky metal thing cutting through wood
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but the nature is gorgeous
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hi Bob thanks for joining us
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thank you for coming with us
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we'll do some more video today from Gyro Caster
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which is UNESCO World Heritage Site
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known as the city of stone
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this particular type of stones
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that built up all these houses
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on the Hillside not too far from here
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the blue eye in Albania
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we're gonna go for a little hike and see if we can
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find any sense of quiet yeah
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so we can chant on our beads
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oh we can chant on them
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now we are but you chant anyway
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chant anyhow chant doesn't matter
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don't search for quiet
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you will be lost you wake up in your mind is racing
